§ MR. SHEEI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education (1) whether the making of a grant in aid of technical education by a local authority in Ireland is a condition precedent to the making of a similar grant by the Science and Art Department; and (2) whether the same rule applies to England, Scotland and Wales; if so, how many local authorities in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland respectively made, grants in aid of technical education in the years 1895 and 1896, and what were the aggregates of the corresponding sums allocated by the Science and Art Department to England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland respectively?
§ SIR J. GORSTThe answer to the first question is in the affirmative. The answer to the second question is, that in England, Scotland and Wales no grant in aid of technical education is made by the Science and Art Department.